How Was This a Kids Movie? – The Black Hole (1979) | Featuring Special Guest Brant Bumpers
For the final installment of our six-part special guest series, Uncle Patches and Sinister Cinema are joined once again by actor Brant Bumpers to revisit one of Disney's strangest and most ambitious films: The Black Hole (1979).
As kids, we expected laser battles, heroic robots, and exciting space adventure. What we got was a surprisingly slow-burning science-fiction mystery that built toward one of the most bizarre, unsettling, and unforgettable endings ever seen in a Disney movie.
In this episode, we discuss Disney's attempt to compete with the sci-fi giants of the late 1970s, the film's impressive visual effects, memorable robots, dark themes, and the shocking finale that left an entire generation wondering what they had just watched.
Was The Black Hole ahead of its time? Was it too ambitious for a family film? And how did Disney get away with that ending?
Join Uncle Patches, Sinister Cinema, and special guest Brant Bumpers as they close out our six-part series with a deep dive into one of the most fascinating cult classics ever broadcast on stolen cable.